Omaha - Two University of Nebraska at Omaha’s (UNO) music ensembles will be joining forces on Thursday, March 17 for “Strings Attached,” a three-part showcase including separate performances by the UNO Chamber Orchestra and Jazz Ensemble as well as a collaborative performance between the two.

Starting at 7 p.m., the UNO Chamber Orchestra will perform music by French Impressionist composers Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy. Selections include Ravel’s "Pavane for a Dead Princess" and Debussy’s "Pettite Suite."

Next, UNO’s Jazz Ensemble will perform music from Thad Jones, a jazz trumpeter from the 1950s through 1970s. Selections include "Back Bone" and "Don’t Git Sassy."

The program will close with both the Chamber Orchestra and Jazz Ensemble joining forces, a first in the university’s 100-plus-year history, to perform the popular "Hunting Wabbits 2 (A Bad Hare Day)" from Gordon Goodwin.

This pair of performances will take place in the Strauss Performing Arts Recital Hall. It is open to the public for a cost of $5 for non-students and $4 for students without an NUID. Students with an NUID can get into the performance for free.

The University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) is Nebraska’s metropolitan university. The core values of the institution place students at the center of all that the university does; call for the campus to strive for academic excellence; and promote community engagement that transforms and improves urban, regional, national and global life. UNO, inaugurated in 1968, emerged from the Municipal University of Omaha, established in 1931, which grew out of the University of Omaha founded in 1908.